Deny and Disavow Distancing the Imperial Past in the Culture Wars

<p dir="ltr">Revised and expanded, the second edition of Alan Lester's acclaimed analysis of changing attitudes to Empire.</p><p dir="ltr"> 'Deny and Disavow' tackles the deliberate misrepresentations of recent calls for recognition and reform made by Black Lives Matter and other campaigning organisations, as well as the clear majority of historians working in the field. Lester intersperses an admirably dispassionate anatomy of the culture warriors' various strategies to distance Britain from its own history with punchy 'snapshot' accounts of some of the key events and figures that are now, apparently, controversial ... I would recommend this book to all general readers interested in the current culture wars and the imperial history behind them.' <i>Dr Ryan Hanley, University of Exeter.</i></p>